stuart@rennet.cs.wisc.edu (Stuart Friedberg) (02/18/89)
A few months ago I noted that most, if not all, of the shops in Rochester, New Yorker that formerly handled ST's no longer did so. You might find this followup about the Atari dealer network amusing. I moved to Madison, Wisconsin late last year and recently decided to dust off my ST. After asking in a number of computer shops, I was referred to a grand total of ONE local dealer. They are only open two afternoons a week, and they operate out of one room rented in the back of an appliance store. !!!! (Note, Madison is a state capitol, with about 30,000 college students, so it's not just a collection of cornfields.) Stu F.
Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik) (02/19/89)
Thanks to Atari's Christmas advertsing push in the NYC area we now have FIVE area stores that carry the ST line and adverise it in the Science section of the NY TIMES regularly! In Fairfield CT you'll also find a computer store that was rated the best in Fairfield County, and its bread and butter is the ST line! The latest down info from Atari is that it has set aside a huge amount of money for a major ad push starting Mic Fleetwood and members of Tangerine Dream and the Moody Blues to push Atari's new line of MIDI keyboards (priced from $300-$10,000) and their computers. Dealers will also be given a large amount of money to run ads in local newspapers - Atari's push for 89 is on! Peter Szymonik
Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252) (03/09/89)
Here in Central, East, and South East Texas, we have a good supply of
ST dealers. Excluding Federated, Fort Worth/Dallas has five dealers, Austin
has two, Houston has about five. Add to that the Federated chain.
The areas that hurt, though, are the rural parts. You find nothing
but Tandys, a few clones, and lots of Apples in the schools.
Larry Rymal <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>